The absolute BEST thing about Mr Braganza is how sweet, sincere and generally all around awesome the guy is. HE is sooo fun! First time commenting but long time reader Tiff from Six Six Sick introduced me to you guys and everyday I come here to be get a fresh Scottish take on the world of fashion. Thanks for your general all around awesomeness too!

Sometimes designers can inadvertently teach you valuable lessons. Things you observe which can be applied to your own life. I'm sure most designers rarely set out to influence your life beyond what you wear, since what you wear is their business, but there have been instances where I find myself...

Susie THIS right here is one of the many reasons I come to you day in day out is that you BREATHE LIFE INTO the death that can be style/vogue.com. You are so valid in this industry because of this. I don't think anyone has both the breadth and depth of knowledge that you have and I am so grateful to be able to read your opinions and uncover hidden gems thanks to it.
A friend told me I would enjoy the Giles collection and until seeing this post I hadn't got it at all. This would have completely gone by without a glance because the main sites don't really photograph/cover the shows well enough.
OK no more gushing from me.

I can finally say I had Stephen Jones on my head if only for a very very brief moment. Well err... not Stephen Jones himself. That would be odd and slightly uncomfortable. No, instead I'm speaking of this arresting swan headpiece by Stephen Jones created for Giles' S/S 12 show that was surpri...

>> Disneyrollergirl has already made the unsurprising connection between 90s Helmut Lang collections and A/W 11-12. From the comparison between the high white polonecks that pepper Celine's A/W 11-12 and the ones seen in Helmut Lang's A/W 98 collection, I then found myself on a much MUCH older ...

John's being very clever here supporting his daughter like this. I agree this isn't nepotism I think it's exactly what anyone would do in John's situation but it's not entirely one sided. His daughters cool designs are re-igniting his own so it's win win for everyone! Sooooo glad to see closeups of those shoes, hope the Rocha's get on the e-commerce train sooner than later!

The first thing that hits you first when you walk into John Rocha's Dover Street store at the moment is not John Rocha's own wares but his daughter's. Simone Rocha's A/W 11-12 collection is out in force at the store and as the only UK stockist, it's a fine place to go and ogle at her pieces. ...

>> I know I'm getting dangerously animated-GIF happy these days. I don't want to induce headaches but I do like them for the sheer fact that multiple pics take up the space of one. The equivalent of the Ikea Billy bookcase in the blogosphere if you will. Plus, when the likes of Fleet Ilya str...

It's been over a year since I turned freelance and the routine of getting up and worrying about affairs that are entirely your own and not that of your boss or company finally feels concrete and settled. If I'm not travelling or buzzing through meetings/events, my days are spent working at home...

Obviously have to say how much I love all the pleats please you've been wearing as of late ;). That aside, this outfit and the DIY everything about this post seems like a release from the tension of what happened. Back to the happy bubble :D!

A week of whining and waiting will now cease. The camera replacement has arrived! Hurrah! Here comes the deluge of outfit photos that I've been itching to do, that will have you wishing the camera never arrived. These images have already done the rounds and Bjork x Dazed & Confused covers a...

I think you're both doing a much better job at dealing with what happened then I could ever do. I'd think that turning into a Jane Austen character might actually be a plus? Either way I understand the prozacian benefits of a jolt of fun colour and a good whiff of leather.
Thoughts are with you guys.

>> Can you tell that without a proper camera (well I'm using my sister's old DSLR at the moment...), meetings and trips cancelled, sitting at home waiting for Steve to return from Berlin, that in fact, I've become an idle and rather silly fashion blogger? First the incessant Photoshopping and n...

Have to say the best part of travelling to Asia is the outlet mall potential (ok not THE best part but certainly one of the top 10). When I think about the colours that rep you best it is this combo and the mint green light orange combo so I think you did pretty damn good! Think about it this way, Mt Fuji will always be there, SS08 Jil won't!

For some reason outlet mall shopping is one of those things that I'm always slightly ashamed to say that I'm doing. Somehow hopping on the tube/bus to a sample sale in London or clicking about on eBay/flash sale/Yoox is not the same thing as planning a day trip with 1-2 hour train rides involve...

I had a feeling Kawaii meant more then just cute and I'm glad you were able to so clearly describe what it really means. Now I'm going to have difficulty not using it with everything I like. What are you eating? I want food pics haha!

>> I've come to understand since being in Tokyo that far from meaning just a simple 'cute', Kawaii can mean anything that you find appealing on an aesthetic level. It's a one-size fits all adjective that can be used to describe babies, clothes, a person's look, a toy or your mannerisms. For so...

Disrespectful my arse! The only way I could see either your or Carolyns outfits as disrespectful is the Breton stripes? But I'd consider that more hopeful then anything else (will Brits ever get along with the Frenchies? Only time will tell...).

>> I'm almost tempted to leave you today with just these three sole images of menswear designer Carolyn Massey at the fringes of the Wilton Way Royal Wedding street party, wrapped up in a PROPER flag. Not some cheap Union Jack flag bought from a souvenir shop but a genuine flag that belonged to...

>> I find it quite scary how much of a formidable and indelible mark, collections such as Jil Sander S/S 11 and Prada S/S 11 have left on me personally. Sure there's always a little subtle marks of various collections that creep into my wardrobe every season, but I don't recall a season in rece...

>> I know it's been on for well over a week whilst I've been in Moscow but today, as in Sunday 27th is the FINAL PUSH day of the Hussein Chalayan sample sale. They've extended an extra day to mark 10-50% OFF the sample sale prices with show pieces and plenty of other goodies still to be bough...

Damn Susie! Those shoes are 100% you! A girl who loves a chunky heel but hates chunky cheese. This must be your lucky Irish post, a free LV jacket that looks serenely stunning and a pair of go anywhere shoes designed specifically with you in mind!
Anastasia is one of the main reasons I'm applying to Cordwainers. I hope one day to meet her and mine her brain for nuggets of info regarding heel construction and the other insane experimental things she has done to create her designs.

>> My head space got a little bit invaded and clogged up towards the end of my Moscow trip for reasons I won't reveal here and whilst I've still got a ton of Moscow-related posts to go up, I thought I'd go with a light hearted respite that centres around an unexpected pair of shoes from young fo...

I only got to see Pam's collection but one of my faves of the week had to be Jeremy's! I always love the atmosphere that the clothes create, the real raw lived-in quality of this clothes.
"I'm sure you'd have fashion bitches wanting to invent ways of physically slapping other fash bitches' faces HARD over the internet." - This quote is now responsible for my drink being all over my keyboard. Thanks so much!

I'm almost grateful that the sort of genre-obsessed pedantic intricacies that I sometimes get a whiff of in music blogs doesn't exist in fashion. We're airy fairy. We keep it loose n' easy. "It's cute!" or "Ew" - that's fashion folk's final bottom line. Alright, I perhaps debased and simplif...

This is exactly how a sponsored post should be! Well done Susie for navigating a tricky corridor and coming out with something quite charming and genuine. The bags are totally you and your aesthetic and its pretty clever of the brand to realize this potential. Nice gifties!

Pub quiz question... what's Furla all about? Alright Furla, Furla... what does this label conjure up for me? Well to be honest, not a lot other than bags that are somewhere between high end designer and mid-priced range and perhaps more apt as gifts for my mum (give her anything Made in Ita...

And where will you be keeping all these gathered fashion week memorabilia? I'm especially interested in that Undercover Mirror, I can't believe you remember Sylvanian Families! I had an otter family that lived in a narrow boat (and My parents still were shocked when I came out?!)...

>> I should really be recapping shows rather than little trinket tidbits but if I'm honest, I've got some simmering thoughts on what has been a bit of an odd season - thoughts that are best left articulated back in London when I'm not par example, ravenously hungry in a Marais apartment. In addi...

You know what? This strap looks farrrr sturdier than the strap that came with my dslr. Which btw snapped after only a few wears!? Terrible! Oh and I'm making a bag for my camera this semester. If it doesn't look too terrible I may even post it.

The reasons for my reposting an outfit that has actually been on the blog before are as follows... a) I needed to tell you that this pic was taken in the corridor of my hotel in Milan, the Brunelleschi aka as a 70s/80s retro haven where smoked glass, sponge effect wallpaper and plastic jacuzzi t...

You know I think Burberry has lost it, Aquascutum all the way! This was literally the only thing I picked up on and tbh I felt it looked very vintage looking... Still think that it looks great despite its questionable inspiration (and price tag!)

>> I don't need multiple Burberry Prorsum black trim plastic rain capes in uniform formation as seen at the magical finale of today's A/W 11-12 show. I just need the one thanks for me to easily wipe off ketchup stains, bird poo and other clumsy disasters that ofen occur with me. Ta very much! ...

“Yup, I have five items on along with a hat… and some chunky socks… and pointy shoes. Laugh if you wish. I don’t really give a shit.”
I think I need a tattoo of this. What was your view of the menswear that was new to them? I loved that (unlike the majority of menswear lines started by womenswear designers) it wasn't just an after thought and could really stand tall and proud next to the womens clothes. I guess what comes after Comme Des Garcons (post-modernism) are the post-comme designers haha.

Live streaming shows at London Fashion Week has been pretty stellar, with the BFC hosting a lot of the streams, Topshop hosting the shows beamed from the Old Billingsgate Walk venue and then of course peeps like Burberry doing their own stream. The one show however, where audiences outside of ...

I literally watched a Sundance Channel documentary on Hubert de Givenchy and he was talking about Balenciaga in the 60's and the film was interspersed with many photos and videos of both designers work from that time so I'm glad you got those references pronto! I do like the neon-futuro injection that Raf's take on those now classic yet uber modern shapes have. I think this collection would be more the Bubble ski wardrobe than any real trophy skiiers wife wardrobe, just because I think they tend to veer more towards Juicy Couture then Jil Sander. Lets make this happen!

Waiting for the show to begin with satisfactory knowledge that I would love it... (Photograph by Yara de Nicola for Self Service) I'm the sort of ditz that partakes in looking the part rather than actually doing. No, that isn't a deluded statement about being a model. What I mean is, give me...

Honestly Susie you sort of had me double take there. Susie Bubble and Dolce? Who would have thought your aesthetic translated so well?! Those windows look like a very Dolce version of your normal outfit posts. I reckon they should hire you as their stylist on a more permanent basis. Inject some Bubble whimsy into their normally tacky chic collections and I'll start paying attention. Bravo!

Dolce & Gabbana's strategies concerning the world of online can claim to put a notch on the timeline of the rise of fashion bloggers if there ever was one with their move to place a row of bloggers in the front row and it seems to me that it continues to engage with the world of online in a v...

YAY Susie I finally got to read a post of yours fully! Mary's collection this season was clearly one of the stand outs. I'm so glad you got to see the stuff up close backstage because I have been mistaking the prints as something from greco-roman mosaics! Shock and horror in deed! Especially considering the amount of these ceramics lying around my home in London! I'm emailing your post to my mother right now who I'm sure is going to love it! YAY for Mary and Susie's photos/writing!
PS: glad you took the training wheels off LFW :P

There are always many heart-thumping moments during London Fashion Week and before I suspected that it was because of will to want to love everything that comes out of London Fashion Week, my biased feelings towards designers who I've seen from day 1 at their graduate collections and just my gen...

>> 'Allo, 'allo - this is me trying to add gravitas and depth to what is essentially is a squeal about my wardrobe. They cut out the bit where I RAVED a lot about the Ikea Stolmen system, probably because they didn't want to give a free shout-out to the Swedish home giant. But like I said befo...

I can't tell you how much I enjoyed seeing this post. I used to make little imaginary cities out of my stationary in school (I really was in a weird world of my own...) and I love the idea of bringing this forward into my adult life. I'm sure you remember the whole Stationary Village scene in The Mighty Boosh. Brilliant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gvZEB4s3-Y .

>> A reader asked if I was going to blog about the Royal College of Art In Progress show where students from fashion design (menswear and womenswear), textiles, silversmithing, metalwork and jewellery show exactly that... their work In Progress, showing varying stages of research and product. I...